Fediverse

Oh, absolutely. I love the "yes, we will implement every single protocol we figure out how to, if we find the resources and time" approach. In fact, I advocated that very approach a lot some years ago.

But that only gets us so far — we end up with a network where a lot of federated social networks federate with Friendica/Red, but not with one another. That's less than ideal.

So I much prefer a situation where we finally get a single protocol a lot of software implements, so that interoperability can be had in any direction. And that's what ActivityPub brought to the table, finally.